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Mummies, disease & ancient cultures
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"This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved as with the ancient Egyptians using a variety of complex techniques, others accidentally by dry baking heat, intense cold and ice, or by tanning in peat bogs.
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By examining these preserved humans, we can get profound insights into the lives, health, culture and deaths of individuals and populations long gone. It will be a 'must-have' volume for anyone working in paleopathology and a fascinating read for all those interested in anthropology, archaeology, and the history of medicine."--Jacket
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| Description | *Mummies, disease & ancient cultures / edited by Aidan Cockburn, Eve Cockburn, and Theodore A. Reyman. - Second edition Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 1 online resource (xxii, 402 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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| Note | Formato pdf/epub Accesso riservato secondo le condizioni contrattuali https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=957602 |
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| ISBN | 9781316342732 | |
| 9781139878340 | ||
| 1316342735 | ||
| 1139878344 | ||
| 9780521589543 | ||
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| 0521589541 | ||
| 0521580609 | ||
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| Publication year | 1998 | |
| has for other title | Mummies, disease, and ancient cultures | |
| Contents note | Mummies of ancient Egypt / William H. Peck -- Disease in ancient Egypt / A.T. Sandison and Edmund Tapp -- Dental health in ancient Egypt / James E. Harris, Paul V. Ponitz and Brian K. Ingalls -- A classic mummy: PUM II / Aidan Cockburn, Robin A. Barraco, William H. Peck and Theodore A. Reyman -- ROM I: mummification for the common people / Nicholas B. Millet, Gerald D. Hart, Theodore A. Reyman, Michael R. Zimmerman and Peter K. Lewin -- Egyptian mummification with evisceration per ano / Theodore A. Reyman and William H. Peck -- Mummies and mummification practices in the southern and southwestern United States / Mahmoud Y. El-Najjar, Thomas M.J. Mulinski and Karl J. Reinhard -- Aleutian and Alaskan mummies / Michael R. Zimmerman -- Mummies of Peru / James M. Vreeland, Jr. -- South American mummies: culture and disease / Bernardo T. Arriaza, Felipe Cárdenas-Arroyo, Ekkehard Kleiss and John W. Verano -- Bog bodies of Denmark and northwestern Europe / Christian Fischer -- Mummies from Italy, North Africa and the Canary Islands / Antonio Ascenzi, Paolo Bianco, Gino Fornaciari and Conrado Rodríguez Martín -- Mummification in Australia and Melanesia / Graeme L. Pretty and Angela Calder -- Mummies from Japan and China / Kiyohiko Sakurai, Tamotsu Ogata, Iwataro Morimoto, Peng Long-Xiang and Wu Zhong-Bi -- Bodies from cold regions / J.P. Hart Hansen -- New investigative techniques / Theodore A. Reyman, Henrik Nielsen, Ingolf Thuesen, Derek N.H. Notman, Karl J. Reinhard, Edmund Tapp and Tony Waldron |